. The Red Cross in peace and war. m a hampered work, its worth largely lost;Twas hindrance, and pain, and effort, and cost:But through these came knowledge,— knowledge is power,—And never again in the deadliest hour THE WOMEN WHO WENT TO THE FIELD. 513 Of war or of peace shall we be so besetTo accomplish the purpose our spirits have what would they do if war came again ?The scarlet cross floats where all was blank would bind on their brassards * and march to the the man liveth not who could say to them nay;They would stand with you now, as they stood with you
. The Red Cross in peace and war. m a hampered work, its worth largely lost;Twas hindrance, and pain, and effort, and cost:But through these came knowledge,— knowledge is power,—And never again in the deadliest hour THE WOMEN WHO WENT TO THE FIELD. 513 Of war or of peace shall we be so besetTo accomplish the purpose our spirits have what would they do if war came again ?The scarlet cross floats where all was blank would bind on their brassards * and march to the the man liveth not who could say to them nay;They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,—The nurses, consolers, and saviors of men. The insignia and arm-band of the Red Cross worn on the field. NOTE.—Returning home from a journey, Miss Barton was notified in theafternoon that she would be expected to attend the banquet and respond to thetoast, The Women Who Went to the Field. As there was little or no time forpreparation, the foregoing poem was hastily written, and may almost be consideredas CUBA AND IE CUBAN CAMPAIGN. E had scarcely returned from Armenia when para-graphs began to appear in the press from all sectionsof the country, connecting the Red Cross with some undefined method of relief for Cuba. Theseintimations were both ominous and portentous for thefuture, something from which we instinctively shrunk and remained per-fectly quiet. The murmurs grew to clamors loud, and, I regret tosay, not always quite kind. There were evidently two Richmonds in thefield, the one ardently craving food alone, simply food for the other wanting food and arms. They might have properly beenclassed under two distinct heads. The one, merely the friends ofhumanity in its simple sense; the other, friends of humanity also, butwhat seemed to them a broader and deeper sense, far more sought to remove a cause as well as an effect, and the muffledcry of Cuba Libre became their watchword. Naturally, any generalmovement by the people in f
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